Beatles, Country, Elvis, Classic Rock, Hawaiian

StrawberryWine was the lead-off single from Deana Carter’s debut album DidIShave My Legs For This? in 1996. The song launched her to country singing stardom when it became a No. 1 hit and was the most successful single song of her career overall. They recorded it in the key of D flat major, which proved difficult to translate to ukulele so I just dropped it down to C.

Getting back to my country roots, many of my favourite songs came from family car trips in my youth: to Northern Ontario for a week at an old cottage by a cool lake, or down south, straight down to Florida for a hot week’s relief from the cold Canadian winters. Pop had an 8 track player, and he had heavily invested in music tapes. His favorites were The Green, Green Grass of Home, which was actually a few sets of compiled music, Kenny Roger’s The Gambler, The Eagles Greatest Hits and ONJ (Olivia Newton-John). I had a pretty good starter pack of country music that way. Eventually I found my own favourite music artists and genres, but for the next few posts I will be focusing on my country songs.